Nginx headers to be set at the time of request processing

2016-11-23 Thread Sushma
Hi all, I understand that proxy_set_header sets headers before proxying the request to the upstream server. Is there some way I can set the headers at the time of request processing itself not just before proxying to upstream servers? Thanks, Sushma Posted at Nginx Forum: https

Re: Start nginx worker process with same user as master process

2016-09-22 Thread Sushma
Thanks a lot Francis. Apparently nginx was once started as root. So automatically the ownership of the temp folders got changed to nginx user. This explains the sudden permission change even though I had set it explictly. Thanks for your help. Cheers, Sushma Posted at Nginx Forum: https

Re: Start nginx worker process with same user as master process

2016-09-20 Thread Sushma
Thanks for the details. I have explicitly changed permissions for directories as required. But the problem I am facing here is nginx reload fails due to permission denied for proxy_temp folder. I had explicitly changed permissions for this folder so that it could be accesssed by user abc (user

Re: Start nginx worker process with same user as master process

2016-09-20 Thread Sushma
Hi Francis, Thanks for your update. When nginx is installed (checking with -V option), I see that the user specified is "nginx" user. However my master and worker process are run as a different user (non root user). In this case I see that many of the directories in nginx are owned by nginx

Log the headers sent by nginx to upstream server

2016-08-31 Thread Sushma
My client sends a request to nginx with a http header set. This header is overwritten by nginx before passing along the reqest to the downstream server. I want to log the header after modification by nginx. I understand that we can log the header sent by client using "$http_". Is there some

Start nginx worker process with same user as master process

2016-08-17 Thread Sushma
I have setup nginx master process with a user , lets say user1. In the nginx.conf, user directive is mentioned with nginx. (user nginx;) I understand that worker processes will be spawned by user nginx when I start nginx. Is there a way to start worker processes also as user1 without changing

SNI support for nginx

2016-07-04 Thread Sushma
Hi, I am relatively new to nginx. I would like to setup multiple domains on the same port. Nginx has SNI support enabled. Do i have to still point to the right ssl certificate and ssl private in each of server blocks using the ssl_certificate directive? Or is there a way, nginx will be able to